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On 23 November, the town of Damassack in northern Nigeria was attacked by the militant group Boko Haram. Thirteen-year-old Hadja Chetima Gambo was at school at the time. In the ensuing panic, the school emptied as everyone scrambled to find a safe place to hide.
Hadja realized she would not be able to make it home without...

Rahila Boukari, a 26-year-old mother of three, had barely enough money to take her youngest daughter, Chafaatou, to the intensive nutrition centre in Guidan-Roumji, south-central Niger.
By the time they arrived at the centre, Chafaatou was extremely ill. She was suffering from protein-energy deficiency—a deadly...

The sun filters through the dust lifted by a child playing in the sandy courtyard. Rouké Amadou worries that she and her family might soon be forced from this compound, their home for the past few months.
Quietly and assuredly she gestures with her hand several times to make her point: “Whatever happens next,...

The concerns and perspectives of communities in six West and Central Africa countries will be at the heart of the first World Humanitarian Summit Regional Consultation in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire on 19-20 June.
Communities in Mauritania, Mali, Nigeria, Niger, Côte d’Ivoire and Cameroon were asked to...